Invited Speakers

The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), a Deemed to be University,
invites researchers to submit unpublished research papers for 7th
International Conference on “Empirical Issues in International Trade &
Finance (EIITF)” on 14th and 15th December, 2020 at its Kolkata Campus,
India. The Conference provides a forum for dissemination of modern
research and facilitates exchange of ideas among renowned scholars from
India and abroad.

The earlier EIITF conferences hosted eminent key notes speakers like
Prof. L. Alan Winters, distinguished Professor of Economics at
University of Sussex, Prof. Joshua Aizenman, distinguised Professor of
International Relations and Economics at University of Southern
California. Jeffrey Bergstrand, Professor at University of Notre Dame,
Gita Gopinath, Professor of International Studies and Economics, Harvard
University and Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund, Kala
Krishna, Professor of Economics at the Pennsylvania State University,
MaitreeshGhatak, Professor of Economics, London School of Economics,
among others.

7th Conference on EIITF will host the following esteemed academicians as
invited speakers.

Pol Antrās (TBC) Robert G. Ory Professor of Economics at Harvard
University

Prof. Pol Antrās is Robert G. Ory Professor of Economics where he is
teaching since 2003. He is a research associate at the National Bureau
of Economic Research (NBER) where he served as Director of International
Trade and Organization Working Group. He is also a Research Affiliate at
Centre of Economic Policy Research and is a member of CESifo’s Research
Network.

Professor Antrās’ research fields include international economics and
applied theory. One of his recent works is focuses on the analysis of
global value chains and on the interplay between trade, inequality and
costly redistribution.
Since 2015, Prof. Antrās has served as the editor of the Quarterly
Journal of Economics. Previously, he was on the editorial board of the
Annual Review of Economics, the American Economic Review, the Journal of
International Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, among other
journals. He was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 2007,
Fundaciķn banco Ferrero Prize in 2009 among other distinctions. He was
also elected Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2015.

Professor Antrās received his B.A. and M.Sc. in Economics from
Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. He completed his PhD from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003. His research provided the
workhorse model to study firm’s global sourcing strategies, which led to
the emergence of a voluminous literature on empirical trade and applied
theory.

Sumit Agarwal Low Tuck Kwong Distinguished Professor of Finance at the
Business School, Professor of Economics and Real Estate at the National
University of Singapore.

Professor Sumit Agarwal is Low Tuck Kwong Distinguished Professor of
Finance at the Business School and a Professor of Economics and Real
Estate at the National University of Singapore. Previously he held
positions as Professor of Finance at Georgetown University, senior
financial economist in the research department of Federal Reserve Bank
of Chicago and a senior vice president and credit risk management
executive in the Small Business Solutions Group of Bank of America.

Prof. Agarwal's research interests include issues relating to financial
institutions, household finance, behavioral finance, international
finance, real estate markets, urban economics and capital markets. He
has published over fifty research articles in various reputed journals
viz. American Economic Review, Journal of
Money Credit and Banking, Journal of Political Economy, Review of
Economics and Statistics, Journal of Financial Economics. His writings
were also featured on various media outlets like BBC, CNBC and Fox. He
runs a blog on household financial decision making called Smart Finance.

Prof. Agarwal has won various prestigious awards like the Distinguished
Alumni Achievement Award at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee,
Outstanding Researcher Award at the National University of Singapore,
the Paul Samuelson TIAA-CREF certificate of excellence and many more.

Prof. Agarwal has a Bachelors’ degree in Computer Science and a Master
in Economics from University of Wiskonsin. He is a PhD in Financial
Economics from the same University.

Professor Jeffrey H. Harris is the Gary Cohn Goldman Sachs Endowed Chair
in Finance at the Kogod School of Business at American University. With
an extensive background in market microstructure and regulatory issues,
Dr. Harris has served as Chief Economist at the U.S. Commodity Futures
Trading Commission. He also has prior experience as Visiting Academic at
the Nasdaq Stock Market and at the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission.
Prof. Harris is an eminent researcher and his research works has found
its place in highly reputed journals like the Energy Journal, Financial
Management, The Financial Review, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of
Futures Markets, the Journal of Investment Management, the Journal of
Financial Economics, the Journal of Futures Markets, the Review of
Futures Markets, the Review of Financial Studies among others.

He has held faculty appointments at various reputed institutions such
the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University where he was the
Dean’s Chair in Finance, the Collins Chair of Finance in the Cox School
of Business at Southern Methodist University (visiting), at the
University of Delaware, at the University of Notre Dame and at The Ohio
State University. Prof. Harris received his B.A. in Physics and MBA from
the University of Iowa and his Ph.D. in Finance from The Ohio State
University.